Sunday, 6 September 2015

The Swan nebula with a LN300 video camera and a 150mm f/5 AZ Newtonian

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A LN300 Video camera fitted with a UV/IR and a Light pollution filter was placed at the Newtonian focus of an f/5, 150P star Discovery AZ GO...
Thursday, 3 September 2015

The dumbbell and crescent nebulae with an LN300 video camera and a Star Discovery 150mm Newtonian

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An LN300 video camera fitted with a UV/IR cut filter and a light pollution filter was placed at the Newtonian focus of a Star Discovery, f/5...
Monday, 24 August 2015

M13 with a 150P Newtonian and an LN300 video camera

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A LN300 video camera was placed at the Newtonian focus of a 150P Star Discovery, AZ GOTO Newtonian. The camera was connected to a Windows 10...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015

M57 with the LN300 video camera and the 150mm Newtonian on a Star Discovery AZ GOTO mount

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The LN300 video camera was placed at the Newtonian focus of the Star Discovery 150P, f/5 Newtonian. The camera was connected to a Windows 10...
Wednesday, 12 August 2015

M27 with 5s video frame exposures with a LN30 video camera and a 150 mm, f/5 Newtonian

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The LN300 video camera was fitted with a Baader UV/IR rejection filter and placed at the Newtonian focus of an AZ GOTO, 150 mm, f/5. Newtoni...
Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Long exposures with the LN300 frame-integrating video camera

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The Star Discovery AZ, GOTO mount with a Star Discovery 150 mm, f/5 Newtonian was use with the LN300 video camera fitted with a Baader UV/IR...
Sunday, 9 August 2015

First light for a low cost frame-accumulating video camera and a Star Discovery AZ GOTO, 150 mm, f/5 Newtonian

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The camera is a low cost (about £45) LN300, frame accumulating video camera producing composite video output. LN300 video camera The c...
Thursday, 6 August 2015

A camera needs a lens. I this case, a 150mm f/5 Newtonian

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I have obtained an ideal portable system for use with deep sky astrovideography in the field. The new Skywatcher Star Discovery mount with S...
Sunday, 28 June 2015

UTC control for the Samsung

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UTC (Up The Coaxial) control is possible for the Samsung SDC-435 and SCB-2000 which can be controlled remotely using the hand controller. Th...
Tuesday, 23 June 2015

35% waxing, crescent Moon with a monochrome CMOS USB camera

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An Opticstar PL-130M monochrome, USB CMOS camera was placed at the prime focus of a 127 mm Maksutov and six, 500 frame AVIs were captured of...
Thursday, 18 June 2015

Solar imaging with an Opticstar PL-130M monochrome CMOS camera in H-alpha light

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The Opticstar PL-130M monochrome CMOS camera is a relatively low cost USB Imaging device that is marketed as a solar system camera and auto-...
Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Testing a £2 webcam as a possible starter camera for solar system imaging

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I purchased this camera from Amazon for £2 As a webcam, it is quite good and would probably give a good result for video conferencing an...
Thursday, 4 June 2015

The best of both adapter worlds with the £12-80, 1000 TV lines, colour TV camera

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Today, I removed the sliding IR cut/ plain glass filters from the lens holder and re-attached the lens threads to the circuit board. Th...